Making narrow-neck bottles.



F. l. MACKIN. MAKING NARROW NECKVBOTTLES.

APPHCATION HLED AUG-10,1912.

Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

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KANCIS J. MACKIN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO MACKIN BOTTLE MACHINE (10., F RENO, NEVADA, A

CORPORATION OF NEVADA.

' MAKING NARROW-NECK BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Batent. Patented Aug. 3,1915.

Application filed August 10, 1912. Serial No. 714,361.

- T0 aZZ 10]: omit may concern Be. it known that I. FRANCIS J. MAcKiN,

citizen of the United States, residing at the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Making Narroweck Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of hollow glassware, and pertains especially to a machine for making narrow-neck bot tles.

The objects of the invention are briefly these: To successfully blow a narrow-neck bottle by machinery and blow the blank in a blank mold the full bottle length, supporting the blank on the 'neck ring and bottom plate, while a bottle mold i-s substit-uted for the blank mold and then with the blank still supported on the bottom plate and ring,

blowing the blank to bottle size; 'to use the bottom plate of thebottle mold as the blower to blow the glass into the finish or neck-ringiin the blank mold, and also;

. separate castings are-employed and where it is almost-impossible to keep both at the same temperature. t

Having reference to the accompanying v,drawings'-Figure 1 is a side elevationrrepresenting one form of the invention. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 31s plan view. Fig. l is a vertical sectlon o the apparatus showing the interior ofone of the mold sections in elevation. Fig. 5 isa section on X X, Fig. at. Fig. 6 is a detail of a locking joint of the mold on the line ZZ of Fig. 4. vFig. 7 i-sa side elevation with the mold in reversed position, to that shown in Fig. 1, parts being-broken away. Fig. 8 is a plan view of the samel Fig. 9 is a horizontal section on line Y-Y, Fig.'7, with the molds open and ready to be retracted to transfer the blank from the blank mold to the blow mold. Fig. 10 is a similar View showing the parts after the transfer. Fig. 11 s a siide elevationof the machine in the position ,indi'catedin Fig. 10, with parts broken away.

A representsa two-part mold oasting" hing d at 2 to a horizontally disposed axle 3, whichlatter is shiftable endwise in a hub mold or blowing mold -7 from. inverted 't'o upright position andvice versa; the bottom plate 8 and neck ring 9 being reversible in unison with the mold casting. Toetl'ect this reversibility, frame 5 is shown as'beingpro vided with a hollow hub 4 turning in roller bearings 10, in a stationary-partB of the machine; the hubAflforming a bearing for the axle 3, which. latter is square in cross section, sliding in a correspondingbore in hub.

Theaxle :3 hasa limitedendwise movement n the hub 4, 'sufiicient toca'rrythe mold casting fromzia position with the neck.

ring 9 and bottom plate 8 in co-acting register with the blank'gmold 6, asshown in Figs.

1 and 7, .to aposition where the bottle or blowing mold Tisinc osacting register withbottom plate 8, as shown- 7 the. neck ring 9 and in Figs. 1041. p The bottom'plate"'8, Fig.4., is' in the form of a valve having a valve stem-11, operating in a valve casing 12,which is pivoted 211313 to an arm on the reversible frame 5, and has a hose or other suitable, flexible connectionith a source of air su 1 p The neck ri 9 'is made in two part is made in two parts to open and close in the usual manner and is worked independently of the two parts of the mold casting A.

hinged. at 15 to an arm on frame 5 on the The manner of opening and closing the neck ring and the mohl will be explained shortly.

Co-acting with the neck ring isa neck ring plunger 17 sliding in an adjustable screw plug 18 carried in the valve casting 19. Valve casting 19 has an air connection at by which air may be admitted into the cavity formed by the neck ring plunger 17 to blow the blank to its full length; the reciprocation of the plunger rod 17 being ef-. 'fected by suitable means as the hand-lever 21. Normally, plunger 17 is below the lowest point of the blank and out of interference therewith.

Valve casting 19, neck ring9 and bottom plateS (except when the latter is turned back into the full line position shown in Fig. l) are maintained substantially in axial alinement during the bottle making operation, with the blank supported between the neckring and bottom plate 8 while the mold A is shifted so that the blank becomes transferred from the blank mold 6 to the blowing mold or bottle mold 7; the mode of operation being as follows: In practice,

with the parts in the position of Fig. 1, and the molds locked-and closed, and the bottom plate-8 with its valve casir 12 turned backward on its pivot 13, the glass gatherer deposits the gather in the mold 6. Immedielevate plunger 17 to form a pocket 24.,

represented in dotted lines Fig. 4, and the neck portion of the blank; the'air in pipe 14 having been turned off before plunger 17,

' is retracted,- so as to prevent the collapse of the walls of the cavity 24:. Next, the operator grasps handle 25 to turn screw plug 18 a portion of a revolution, and thereby force the collar extension 22 a slight distance up into the finish, immediately retracting same so as to leave an air passage through which the air from connection 20 may enter the cavity 24 in the neck of the blank; the air in the connection being controlled by a suitable. valve 25; The air thus admitted into the neck of the blank blows the blank to its full length; the glass as it rises in the blank mold 6 striking the bottom plate 8 and seating it. In so doing, the plate 8 lifts an indicator pin 26, showing the operator that the blankhas been blown toits full length.

I believe that I am the first ever to have blown the blank to its full length in the blank'mold; and'to have used the bottom plate not only as a support for the blank m the blank mold, but to have used it'as a.

flb'v'alve' to permit the gather to have been blown into the finish of the neck ring; and also to use this same valve-bottom-plate'asa bottom-plate in the subsequent operation of blowing the blank to bottle size in the bottle or blow mold. Having blown the blankto full length in the manner described, the position of the mold casting is then reversed by turning the frame 5 through one-half of a revolution, so as'to bring the molds 6, 7

into an upright position, indicated in Figs. 5;

7-1.1; this reversing being done in the present instance manually by means of the han- (lles 27 on the mold casting A. This reversing of the molds also reversesthe posi .tion of the-neck ring andbottom plate;

bringing molds 6-'? into upright position with the neck ring 9 and its various connections uppermost, and the bottom plate 8 and its carrying means 12, lowermost.

The next step is to open the mold leaving 5 v the glass blank supported by the neck ring and bottom plate 8, and next to shift the mold casting backward with the sections in opened-out position, so that when the sections are closed again, the glass blank will be contained within the blowing mold 7.

The locking and unlocking of the molds 1s done by a lever 29, and the opening and q closing of the molds and the shifting of the molds lengthwise of axle 3 is done by a le-- 55 ver 30; this lever 30 being attached to a rock-shaft: 31, which latter carries a pair of cranks 32, connected by links 33"with a ring 34, on hub l. Ring Bl has a circumferential, interior groove 35 to accommodate 'a cross- Joe head 36, which connects with a rod 37 extending centrally through axle 3 and connecting-at the opposite end by toggles 38 in such fashion that when the pivot 2 of the" mold sections is held stationary, and rod 37 is moved in one direction, the mold sections will open, and when the rod 37 is moved in the opposite direction the mold sections will close.

. l The cross-head 36. extends out through uide slots 39 in hub 4, and turns with the hub. The endwise movement of the sleeve 3i in which'the ends of the cross-head 36 work, 'is limited by pins 40 fixed in axle 3,

and also project radially through the slots 11 5 39 in the hub and are adapted to contact with one or the other of the end walls of an inner annular cavity 41 formed on collar 34.

Ring 34 does not revolt but is simply designed to shift end-wise on hub at, which latter does revolve, sons to act when the lever 30 is pushed backward =in the direction of the arrow, Figs. l7, first, to open the mold sections so that they will clear the. blank,

Fig. 9, and secondly, to shift the blank molds, so as-to bring the bottlemold 7 intoposition in readiness to inc/lose the blank, Fig. 10L

'n order to insure the opening of the a which the bottom plate and neck'ring change their positions from a point above :the molds to a point below the molds and vice versa inunison withthe reversing of iithe molds.

I. In a bottle making machine, the combination of a blank mold and a bottle mold operable in unison, means for turning the molds simultaneously from an upright to an'inverted position and vice versa, means "for reciprocating the molds at right-angles to their length, a bottom plate and neck ring, into register with which said molds are successively brought by the reciprocation of the molds, air connections with both the bottom-plate and neck ring b which air may be admitted at either end the molds, and means by which the bottom plate and neck ring change their positions from a point above the molds to a point below the molds and vice versa in unison with the reversing of the molds, said blank mold and I bottle mold being of thesame length wherea the neck ring-and plate may be swung in unison through an arc of 180, and means for mounting the mold so that it will turn in unison with the neck ring and bottom plate,

the said neck ring and the said bottom plate .coacting to support the contained article in 'the mold in whichever of its reversed positions the mold is in and during all the blowing operations. v

6. In a bottle blowing machine, a blank mold and a bottle mold formed in one integral casting, the casting made in two parts and hinged so that both molds open or close simultaneously, and a neck ring and bottom plate, said bottom plate constructed with means to blow the glass into the neck ring in the blank mold and also to support the bottom of the blank in both molds.

7 In a bottle making machine, the combination of a blank mold and a bottle mold formed in one casting, the blank mold of the same length as the bottle mold, and a single bottom plate and a single neck ring for both molds, means for positioning the molds suecessively with respect to the neck ring and bottom plate, and means by which air may be admitted successively past the bottom plate and through the neck ring.

8. In a bottle making machine, the combination of a blank mold and a bottle mold formed in one casting, the blank. mold. of the same length as ther bottlg mold,andg a single bottom plate and a single neck ring" for both molds, means for positioning the molds successively with. respect to the neck ring and bottom plate, means which air may be admitted successively past the bottom plate and through the neck ring, and means by which the molds, neck ring and bottom plate are turnable in unison to bring the molds from an upright to an inverted position, and vice versa. i

9. The combination of a pair of integrally connected molds, one for blowing the blank and one for blowing -the bottle from the blank, a bottom plate and a neck ring, means in conjunction with the bottom plate for admitting air ,under pressure to blow the gather into the neck ring, means in conjunc.

tion with the neck ring to subsequently blow the blank the full bottle length in the blank mold and support the'blank on said bottom plate, means for reversing the mold while the blank is still in the blank mold and supported bythe bottom plate and neck ring, and means for transferring the blank to the bottle mold while theblank is supported by said bottom plate and. neck ring.

10. The combination of a pair of integrally connected molds, one for blowing the blank and one for blowing thebottle from the blank, a bottom plate and a neck ring,

means in conjunction with the bottom plate for admitting air under pressure to blow the gather into the neck ring, means in conjunction with the neck ring to subsequently blow the blank the full bottle length in the blank mold and support the blank on said bottom plate, means for reversing the mold while the blank is still in the blank mold and supported by the bottom plate and neck ring, and means for transferring the blank to the bottle mold while the" blank is supported by said bottom plate and neck ring,

said blank mold and bottle mold of the same length whereby the blank is blown the fu bottle length in the blank mold.

11. I11 a bottle blowing machine, the com a horizontal axis, said frame carrying a bottom plate and a neck ring on opposite sides of its axis, a mold open at the ends and registerable with the Jottom plate and neck ring, suitable air connections for admitting air under pressure to the mold in conjunction with both the neck ring and bottom plate, and means by which the mold is reversible in unison with said frame, the said neck ring and bottom plate serving to. supioov port the article in the mold during the entire 1 blowing operations. I

12. In a bottle making machine, the combination of a blank mold'main body and a bottle mold-main body movable in unison,

means forclosing theends of said main bodies, means for moving said main bodies 11o bination of a reversible frame turnable on whereby t0 -2i er, means for 0 for the ethsr E sad 1 losing LJZUlS and. means fer (iirecti. *5 cmnnress-ed air turough the em said movabls P ssing means.

n testimezlj zsilsrsc-f I have hereunta setmy hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FRANCIS J. MACKIN.

Witnesses WALTER REIMERS,

GENEVIEVE S. DONELIN. 

